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March hn<] come?the month of gale and bluster, sleet and storm, in almost every section of onr broad domain?aud March afrAYarrener was to the full as blustering-and. conscienceless as in New JSnglarid. ' Thore were a few days of sun shine during the first week; then came a fortnight of ragir?g snow storms. The cavalry troops, officers and men, went about Hieir stable dtrties as usual, but, except for r< !1 call on the porch' Of-, the barracks and for guard mounting over at the guard house, all military exercise seemed suspended. This meant livelier times for the ladies,, lxnvever; as the offi cers were enabled to devote just so many more hours a day to their entertainment. There were two or three hops a week over in tl e big assembly room, and there was some talk of getting up a german in honor of Miss Travers, but the strained relations existing between Mrs. Rayner and the ladies of ether families at the ]k>st made the matter difficult of accom plishment. There were bright little luncheon, din ner and tea parties, where the "young ofiiccrs and the 3*ounger ladies met every !day;- and, besides all this, despite the Jort that Mrs-Jlayner had at first shown sfixed"determination to discuss the rights and wrongs of "the Hayne affair." as it was now beginning to .be. termed, with uA comers who belonged to th?llifiers, it had grown to be a very general thing .for the. youngsters to drop in at her house at all hours of- the.day; but that was because tlvere were attractions there which outweigl>ed. her-. comit>r;ti veness. Then "Rayner ' himseif overheard some comments on the mistake she was mak ing, and forbade her discussing the sub ject with the officers even of her own regiment She .was- indignant, and de jBa*ided*a>-reason. He would name no Ccmld she hav* -seen the figure that teas slinking in the snotv. names, but told!-her that he had heard enough to convince him she was doing liim more harm than good, and, if any thing, contributing to the turn of the tide in Ilayne's favor. Then she felt out raged and utterly misjudged. It was a critical time for her, and if deprived of the use of her main weapon of offense and defense the battle was sure to go amiss. . Sorely against her inclination, she obeyed her lord, for, as lias been said, she was a: loyal wife, and for the time being the baby became the recip ient of her undivided attention. True to her declaration, she behaved so coldly and with such marked distance of manner to the colonel and his wife when, they met in society immediately after the'dinner that the coionei quietly told his wife she need not give either dinner or reception in honor of Mrs. Ray ner's return. lie would'like to have ber do something to welcome Miss Travers, for he thought the girl had much of her father in lier. Ile knew him well in the old days before and during the war, and liked him. He liked her looks and her sweet, unaffected, cheery manner. lie liked the contrast between her and her sister;. for^Miss Travers had listened in silence to her sister's exposition of what her manner should be to the colonel and Iiis wife, and when they met she was bright and winsome. The colonel stood and talked with her about her father, whom she could remember only vaguely, but of whom she never tired of hearing; and that night Mrs. Rayner rebuked her severely for her disloyalty to the cap tain, who had given her a home. But when Mrs. Hayner heard that Ma j. and Mrs. Waldxcn hud; invited Mr. Hayne to dine with them, and had in vited^tO: meet him two of the cavalry officers add their wives, she was incensed beyond measurer She and Mrs. Waldron had a brief talk, as a result of-.which Mrs. Rayner refused to speak to Mrs. "Waldron at the evening party given by Mrs. Stannaru- in honor of her and her sister. It was this that brought on the crisis. Whatever was said between the men was not told. Maj. Waldron and Capt. Raynerhad a long, consultation, and they, took no one into their confi dence; but Mrs. Rayner obeyed her hus band, went to Mrs. Waldron and apolo gized for her rudeness, and then went with her sister and returned the cali of the colonel's wife; but she chose a bright afternoon, when she knew well the lady was not ;it home. .She retired from the contest, appar ently, as has been said, and. took much Clipstian consolation to herself from the fact that at so great a sacrifice she was obeying her husband and doing the duty she owed to him. J:i very trtith, how ever, the contest , was withdrawn, from her by the fact that for a week or more after his evening at tbc-Waldrons' Mr. Hayned?d not reappear in garrison, and she had no cause to ;ai!c about.? hi us. Officers visiting the house avoided men tion of Iiis nan:;' Ladies of the cavalry regiment calling upon Mrs. l?ayner and Miss 'iravel's occasionally spoke of-vhim and Iiis devotion to the men and his bravery at. the fire, ! "t rather as though they..meant in a general ey.'ay to compli ment (lie Riflers, not Mr. Hayne; and so s?he heard .little of the man whose exist ence was so sore a trial to her. What she would have said, what she would have thought, had she known of. the meeting bet w* en him and her guarded Nellie, is beyond us to describe; but she never dreamed of such a thing, and Miss Travers inner dreamed of telling 1 Jut- lia*, the. present, at least. Fortu- j nately, or unfortunately, for the latter, j it. was not so much of her rchitions^with I Mr..Haync.as of kur relut:04s vr'nli?iult a dozen young bachelors- that Mrs. Ray nor speedily felt herself comp-lied to complain. It was a blessed relief to. the elder sister. Her surcharged sp?*i:> was in sore, need of an escape valve. She was ready to l*>il over in the mental ebullition consequent upon Mr. Hayne's reception at the post,-arid with all fche pent up irritability which that episode had generated she could not have eon gained herself and slept. Bat here Miss Travers came to her re lief. Her beauty, her winsome ways, her unqualified delight in everything that was soldierly.sfwcdflvTendered her vastly attractive to all the young oiScers in garrison. Graham, and Foster, of the infantry, Mer ton, Webster and Royce, of the cavalry, haunted the house at alt manner ofIhaaxs, and tho captain bade them welcome and**nrgcd them to come of toner and stay later, and* told Mrs. ' "Hayner ho wanted some kind of a sup per or collation every night. lie set be fore Iiis guests a good deal of wine, and drank a good deal more himself than he had ever been known to do before, and they were keeping very late hours at Hayners, for, said the captain, "I don't care if Nellie is engaged: she shall have a good time while she's here; and if the >i>v.s.know all about it?goodness knows votYvc? told-, thorn often enough, Kate? and they doh'thiind it, why, it's nobody's business?hore,at let&i/' What Mr. Van Antwerp*-might think or care was another matter. ?i?ayner never saw him, and did not know him. He rather resented it that Van Antwerp had never written to him and. asked - his consent. As'Mrs/Rayner's husband and Nellie's brother-in-law, it seemed to liim he stood in loco parentis; but Mrs. Hay ner managed the whole thing herself, and he was not even consulted. If any thing, he rather enjoyed the contempla tion of Van Antwerp's fidgety frame of mind as described to him by Mrs. Ray ner al>out the time it l>ecarae apparent to her that Nellie was enjoying the atten tions of whic h she was so general an ob ject, and that the captain was sitting up later and drinking more wine than was .good for him. She was aware that the very nnmlxjr of Nell's admirers would prol>ably prevent her becoming entangled with any one of them, but she needed something to scold about, and eagerly pitched upon this. She knew well that she could not com fort her husbarid in "the anxiety that was gnawing at his heartstrings, but she was jealous of comfort that might como to him from any other source, .and the Lethe of wine and jbiiy companionship she dreaded most of all. Long, long l>e fore, she had induced him to promise that he-would never Offer tho young offi cers spirits in Iiis house. She would not prohibit wine at table, she said; but she never thought of there coming a timo when he himself would seek consolation in the glass and make up in quantity what it lacked in alcoholic strength, lie was impatient of all reproof now, and would listen to nrxrtaik; >but. Nellie was years her junior?more years than she. would admit except at such times as these, when she meant to admonish; and Nellie had to take it. Two weeks after their arrival at War rcner the burden of Mrs. Ra3*ncr's song ?morn, noon and night?was: "What would Mr. Van Antwerp say if he could but see this cr hear that?" Can any reader recall an instance ! where the cause of an absent lover was benefited by the ceaseless -"vrarning in a woman's ear, ''Remember, you're en gaged?" The hero of antiquity who caused himself to bo attended by a shad j owing slave whispering ever and only, i "Remember, thou are .mortal,".is a fine I figure to contemplate?at "this remote ; date. ?le, we are told, admitted the need, submitted to the infiietion. But lives there a woman who will admit that aha needs any instruction a-i to what her conduct should be when tho ?6rd of her heart is away? Lives there a woman who, submitting, because she cannoi. es cape, to the constant reminder, "Thou art engaged,*' will..not' resent it in her ! heart b*?hsartsan?i possibly revenge her self on the one .alone whom she holds at her mercy? ' Left to herself?to her gen erosity, her conscience, her innate ten derness?the cause of the absent one will plead for itself, and, if it have even faint foundation, hold its own. "With the best intentions in the world," many an ! excellent cause has bcci ruined by the injudicious urginga of a mother; but to talk an engaged girl into mutiny, rely on the infallibility of two women?a married sister or a maiden aunt. Just what Mr. Van Antwerp . would have said could he have seen . the situa- , tion at Warrencr ij perhaps* impossible to predict. Just what he did say with out seeing was, perhaps, the most un wise thing he could have thought of: he urged Mrs. Rayner to keep reminding . Nellie of lier promise. His had not been a'life Of' unmixed joy. He was now nearly 35, and desperately in love with a pretty girl who had simply bewitched him during the previous summer. It was not easy to approach her, then, he found, for her sister kept vigilant guard; but, once satisfied of his high connec tions, his wealth and his social standing, the door was opened, and ho was some thing more than welcomed, said the gos-, sips at the Surf house. What his past history had .been, where and how his life had been spent, were matters of le^s consequence, apparently, than what he was now. He had been wild at college, as other boys had been, she learned; ho had tried the cattle business in tlie west,' she was told: but there had been a quar re! with his father, a reconciliation, a 'devoted mother, a I >ng sojourn abroad? Heidelberg?a sudden summons to re turn, tho death of the father, and then the management of a valuable estate fell to the son. There were other children; brother and sisters, throe in all, bat Steven was tho first bora and the mother's ?iory. She was with him at the seaside, and the first thing that moved Nellie Travers to Iii > him was his devotion to that white haired woman who seemed s;> happy in Ids ear.\ I?atwer?n that mother an 1 .Mrs. Rayner there had speediiy sonnig up an acquaintance. She had vastly admired NuKte,:aVid'ViuVin.f the first fortnight of their visit to the Surf house had^fchown her many attentions. The illness of a laughter called her away, and Mrs. Ray ac?-:nirM?u?ce.<J that. she, * ><>. was going el.-"i*where, rwhw Mr. Van Antwerp nself returned, and Mrs. Rayner i\. t iael it was s >. late in the seas si thai lhi-y had l.e:tr?? remain until iL was !!*:: < ?>. .'.<> to, town. J'l October they ;> : .: a;;fortnight in the city, staying at ill'.- Westminster, and ho .vas assiduous in his :r ten'Ions, taking then; every where and lavishing Mowers and l>on bous 4!]):)n Nell. Then Mrs. Van Ant werp i I vi I d them to vi il her at lier own comfortable, old fashioned house down Lov.n, a id Mrs. ItayiKT was eager to ac cept, but. N? Hie. ?ai.l,i?O. she would not do it: she could not accept Mr. Van Ant werp: sh<> liked, adniired and was at tracted by hin but she. ffeil that love him she did riot. Ii** was devoted, but had .tact autl .patience, and -Mrs. Rayncr at last yitthled to her demand and took' her oil in October to sjtend sonic time in the interior of the stale with relations of their mother, and there frequently-came Mr. Van Antwerp to see her and to urge his suit. -?hey^T.'ere to have gone to Warrener immediately aftc^ the holidays, but Jan ' uary came and Nellie liau1 not surren dered. Another week in the city, ? long talk with the devoted old mother whose heart was so wrapped up in'her son's happiness, and whose arms seemed yearn ing to enfold'-the' lovely girl, and Nellie was conquered. If not fully. coRtiioc?d of her love for Mr. Van Antwerp, she was more than half in love with his mother. Her prom.se was given, and tl>en she seemed eager to get back to the frontier which she had known arid loved as a child. "I want to see the moun tains, the snow peaks, the great rolling prairies, once more," she said, and he had to consent. Man never urged more importunately than he that the wedding should come off that very winter; but Nellie once more said no. She could not and would not listen to an earlier date than the summer to come. No one on earth knew with what sore foreboding arid miser;/ he lef her go. l?t was something that Mrs. Rayner coiild not help remarking?his unconquerable aversion to every mention of the army and of his own slight experience on the : frontier. He would not. talk of ait even with Nellie, who was an enthusiast and had spent two years of her girlhood, al most under the shadow of Laramie Peak and loved the mere mention of the "Wyo ..ming streams and valleys. In her hus band's name Mrs. Rayner had urged him to drop his business early in the spring and come to them for a visit. He declared it was utterly imrx>ss.'ble.'3faeTymoment of Ids time must be given to the settling of estate affairs, so that he could be a free man in the summer. He meant to take his bride abroad immediately and t.pend a year or more in Europe. These were details which were.Jmdustrioufciy circu lated by Mrs. Rayner and specdilv- be came garrison property. It seemed to the men that in bringing her sister there engaged she had violated all precedent to begin with, and in this instance, at least, there was general complaint. i Mr. Blake said-ii reminded him of his early boyhood, when they used to take him to the great toy stores at Christmas; "Look all you like, long for it as much as you please, but don't touch." Merton and Royce, of the cavalry, said it was simply a challenge to any better fellow to cut in and cut out the Knickerbocker; and, to do them justice, they did their best, to carry, out their, tlieory. Both 'they and their comrades of the Riders were assiduous in their attentions to Miss Travers, and other ladies, less favored, made acrimonious comment in conse quence. A maiden sister of one of the veteran captains in the ?th., a damsel whose stern asceticism of character w^s reflected in her features and grimly illus trated in her .dress, was moved to. cen sure of her more attractive 'neighbor.- i "If I had given my heart to a gentle man," said she, and her manner Avas in lieative of the long struggle which such a bestowal would cost both him and her, "nothing on earth would induce me to accept attentions from any one else, not even if he were millions of miles away." But Nellie Travers was "accepting at tentions" with laughing grace and en joying the society of these young fellows immensely. Tho.Jiouso vjould.jiave- been gloomy without her and "the boys," Rayner was prompt to admit, for he was ill at ease and sorely worried, while his inflammable Kate was fuming over the situation of lier husband's affairs. Un der ordinary circumstances.-she would have seen very little to object to so long as Nellie showed no preference for any one of her admirers at Warrener, and unless peevish or perturbed in spirit would have made little allusion to it. As matters stood, however, she was in a most querulous and excitable mood; she could not rail at the real cause of her misery, and so, womanlike, she was thankful for a pretext for uncorking the vials of her wratii on somebody or some thing else. If the young matrons in garrison who, with the two or three visiting maidens, were disposed to rebel at Mis.-! Nell's ap parent absorption of all the available cavaliers at the post, and call lier a too lucky girl, could but ha-^e. -hoard. Mrs. Rayner's1 nightly tirades and hourly re bukes, they might have realize*] that here, as elsewhere, the rose had its stinging thorns. As for Miss Travers, she confounded her sister by takhig'itall very -submissively and attempting no de fense, rl'ossildy- conscience. was. telling her that she deserved more than *shor?as getting, or than she would be likely to get until her tister heard of the adven ture with Mr. Hay ne. "By the way," said Mr. Royce one evening as they were stamping off the snow ami-rcrnoving their heavy wraps in Rayner's hallway after a series of garri son calls, "Mrs. Waldron says she ex pects you to play1 for hher . to-morrow afternoon, Miss Travers. Of course it will be my luck to l>e at stables." "You hear better music every after noon Shan I can give you, Mr. Royce." "J\ncr.\ pray?" asked Pars. Hayner, turning quickly upon them. Mr. Royce hesitated, and?with shame be it said?allowed Miss Travers to meet the quest ion: "A" Mr. Ilayne.'s,; Kate*.*** There was the same awkward silence that always "followed the mention of Hayners name. Mrs. Rayner looked an noyed. It was evident that she wanted more information?wanted to ask. but was restrained. ' Royce determined to l* outspoken. Severed of u; have got quite in the way of stopping there on our way from afternoon stables," ho said, very quietly. "Mr. Hayne has his piano now. and has ncarlv recovered the full use of his eyes. Lie phiys. wi:I!:" Mrs. Rayner turned about once more, ard without saying so much as good Flight, went heavily upstairs, leaving her escort to s-'hare with Mr. Royce such welcome as the captain was ready to accord them. If forbidden to talk on the subject nearest her heart, she would not speak at all. She would ha ve bang?Ki her door, but that would have waked baby. It stung her to the quick to know that the cavalry officers were daily visitors ;it Mr. Hnyne's quarters. It was little comfort to know that the iixfaotry^of ?icers did not go."for*"she and they" both kti?-w that, except Maj. Waldron. no ore < t* their number was welcome under that roof, mdess-he would voluntarily come forward and >ay. "I believe you innocent:" Six? felt that but for the stand made by Hayne himself most of their mini 1 >er would have received him into comradeship again by this time, and she oouh: hardly sleep that night from thinking Over what-she had heard. But could she have seen the ligure that was slinking in the snow at the rear door of Hayne's quarters that very evening, {tCerhigdnio the lighted rooms, and at last, after many an irresolute turn, knocking timidly for admission *i and then hiding behind the corner .Q? 1 the sheduntil Sam came and poked his pig tailed head bat into the wintry dark ness in wondering effort to find the vis itor, she would not have slept at alh It was poor Clancy, once more moon ing about the garrison and up to his old tricks. Clancy* had been drinking; but he wanted to know, "could he spake with the lieutenant?*' fTO BS CCST???UBD j The Democracy of South Carolina Threatened with I Disruption. With a Certainty of Alliance and Dem ocratic Candidates in Every District, 'the Rgpitblicans Hope to Slip in.and Elect Ttco or ''Three of'Their Nom inees. The following letter published in the Washington - Post, Republican organ,' though somewhat "mixed'* in several places, may prove good Democratic reading, showing what the Republicans are connting on. Charleston,*^ C., May 26.?The Democratic party of South Carolinais. probably on the verge of the biggest split that ever rent a political party in twain. The little edge of the wedge wasdriven on the 26th of March by Mr. B. R Tillwan, a brother of Con gressman;-George D. Tillman, who for the last twelve years has represented the Second Congressional district. Con? gressman Tillman is at odds-vrilh the South Carolina < {Democracy on the sub ject of tariff. lie is said to lean to wards protection, while the Palmetto S'ate Democracy are fighting for tariff reform. His brother, Ben Tillman, who is the Alliance candidate fop ?Gor* euncr,:'has heretofore dodged the issue, and is not committed one way or the other. The Tillman or Alliance movement will be bitterly fought by the regular Democratic organization of the Srate, and unless a great change takes place in'the Democratic sentiment there will be two Democratic tickets in ther*?eldy and the negro will hold the balance of power. The Republicans, however, will not endeavor to carry the State for Governor, as that would be a hopeless task in any event. The present inten tion is to divide the Republican vote between the two ?D?mocratie candidates for governor to -he best party advantage and concentrate their efforts to carrying the close Congressional districts. The Tillman faction insist that they will stand by the nominees of tbe'Dem* ocratic .convention, and the regular "Democrats also announce that they will do the same, but it is fciraost certain that the defeated faction will -bolt the State Convention to secure the negro vote. A very large element cf the Democratic party will not consent to the nomination of 13. R. Tillman for gov ernor. The Tillman faction announce their intention to apportion the representa tion of the various counties in the State Democratic convention by the number of white Democrat votes in the counties. 'The effect of such an apportionment would be to concentrate*all the power in j a half dozen countiesoin the upper por tioo of the State, where the white peo ple have a majority ?.of the population^ leasing the midSie-add : lower tiers of counties, where the negroes.are largely in the majority, almost cctirfciy^unrep resented in the Democratic State Con version. Perhaps the most interesting ' festere of the coming campaign is the fights ia the Congressional districts. There are every indications of a new d;a! all around The State is entitled to seven .Representatives in Congress. Of this number three have announced their in tention to retire at the expiration of their present terra The entrance vf the Farmers' Alliance into the political arena has complicated matters to a con siderable extent. It is safe to say that there..will be three candidates for Con gress in each of'tnc seven* Congressional districts. Heretofore the Republicans have kept out of the fight for Congress j in all but two of the districts?viz : the [First and t h eleventh. -With the pros pect, however, of theepsssage byvOeu: Lgress of ai-Federal-election law, the Re publicans will run a man in each of the seven districts, relying upon a split In the Democratic party and taking "their chances of a contest. In the First district Mr. Samuel Dibble, who has served six or seven terms, has announced that he will not I ' hhexz candidate for re election. The following gentlemen are announced as j candidates :-W. 'H -liratrley, ~E. Mc Crady, and W7. A. Cuurtenay, Demo crats, Charl ston county; II A. Metz, Democrat, Lexington county ; M. P. Howell and W. P. Murphy, Democrats, | Colleton county; J. W. Stokes, Alii-j ance, Colleton county ; S. W. McKin ley and W. D Crum, colored Repub licans, Charleston county, and Simon Corley, Republican, Lexington county."! Ir. the Second district Congressman j Tillman will make the fight to keep his j place, and will make it on the Alliance j -^iatform. 'His nomination is antagoniz ed bv Robert Aidrich, of Barawell ; G. W. "Croft, D. S Henderson, -J.-G. Ev3ns, of Aiken ; M. B. McSweeney and J. \V. Moore, of Hampton county, -all Democrats. The Republican candi dates for this district arc'Delavan.Yates, white ; Fred "Nix, colored, and S E. Smith, white. Mr. Tillman had a hard fight in 1888 for his scat. lie will have a harder fight to retain it in 1800. In the Third district Congressman J. S. Cothran has announced his iutcotion to decline a re-election. The candi dates in this district can be numbered by the score. Here are some of them ; Alliance?W. C. Reuet, I) K. Norris, W. Simpson, R E. Boweo R. A. Thompson. S.-Pope, Rev o. "A "Slighe. i Regular Democratic?E. B. Murray, | \X. P. Cal h ou o, George i Johnston. J. M. King. Republican? W. W. Kussel and J. A. Bryce, both white. This district is safely Demo cratic, j "Congressman Perry, cf the Fourth j district, will also retire. The following j candidates are in the field for his place : j Alliance?G. W\ Shell. M L Donald- j son. R M. Smith. Regular Democrats David 1* Duncan, ;T. C. Ilaskeil, George A Douglass, John Bratton. ! No Republican has yet appeared in the j field in this district. \ \!n the-Fifth district-'Congressman *J. J. Hempbili has but one op^on?bt.tP. L. Vvhitiock, an Alliance man, is safe to be in the field. The Repablier?s have not brought out a candidate yet. ' Congressman' George W. Dargan*i$^a candidate for re electiou in the Sixth district. He will have no Republican opponent unless there is a split im .the Democratic party. There are, however, several candidates for his seat. Thef'e are Gov. 'John rP.^licfcitfr&on. E,., T. Sfackhouse, B P. Baron. ?J. 'Mc Cutchen, and C. S. McCall. The Seventh, (better known as "the black district") which'is noV ^rsgiitefl by Colonel Elliot, Democrat, will be the scene of a lively fight. Colonel KlH?t will, of course, be a candidate * for eleotios. The other Democrats in tbe**field are John J. Dargan, C G. Sinkler. aife Walter Ilazzard. lOo the Republic*;, side There is an array '-of -eandidat?fe. There is not a 'Republican, white or blaek, in the lower section of ihe State who is not a candidate 'for' Congress from the black district. Tbe'foUdtttffe is a list of the most prominent candi dates : T. E. Miller. "Rbbert Sam -Lee, Barber Morris John Mr. Freeman, all colored; and E. M 'Bre ton, white, Thomas Johnson, whits: v.. H. Ostendorff, white. "The 'Alliance people in this district have cot yet an nounced a candidate. The prob^fcii?K?s are that Colonel Elliott will get the Democratic: nomination and Miller tue Republican uomioation. Gen. Bratton Will PpposelSfro Tillman as a Candidate for Governor. Farmixgton, May 26 1890. Mr. Editor : Be kind enough to allofr me the use of your coluras to reply tfc thoee of my fellow-citizens who have ex pressed-a-de^ire forme-'tc be - a can didate for the gubernatorial* noaiia^ticfe of our party. In the expression of those wishes i& they reached me, along with the higt personal compliment conveyed, tbere^s the ring of a call to doty. I accept both, and will give1 my be&t efforts to deserve the one and meet tfife demands of the other. This is. perhaps enough. 'f2ut*$hat there may be no misapprehension, Bfe far as I am concerned, permit a wordlSs to the present status as I see it I trust and believe that we aresf?ll -'a unit as to common sentiment and desire for the best interests of the State ami its people, and the great common 'puf posc to guard and promote them. All agree that our Democratic "Of ganization is the only agency through which this sentiment can be practical)^ operated, and this purpose - effected by-us. ' Our differences of opinion *afa cc2 fined to the ways and means to be -us?d by our party for this accomplishment. When such differences exist, some of .ds are certainly in error, and 'p?s'si?fy none of us are absolutely right. In this emergency, our Democratic authorities-bave arr?sg?d for -the-can vass of the State ; certaiirry -'-act '-ftc 5Tc" ment a family quarrel, or that 'p?rt?aafc strife and personal scramble for ufbVe .which-is alleged to prevail in -cor.ssfc tions ?f p?;?ti'ci8rt??,*-bct for*he;f&?r steoQ square submission of our'cfeffereiSceat freely and frankiy stated, to the people themselves for final adjudication at& adjustment. j:If they can be submitted calmly an*i dispassionately, and the people bring tb bear on the public business, tba^practi cal business descretion which'l?ey exer cise in their private affairs, the decisioh reached, while it must necessarily over rule the views of sonie of us.- tsill ~fee worthy of a free peotwe.^iH -cttiimfttil the respect and cordial support of ail. But should it be otherwise and we become involved tu partisan strife attti allow passion and prejudice to take pos session of our reason and judgment, the decision will stiil be the best that ?wo, as a people, are, for the time, capable of and must be sustained with unanimi ty. Any clear cut division of us will surely result in graver consequences than^uoanimity in even error for-a--"Sea son can bring upon tts. 'Hedged about by unprecedented danger and difficulty, we must sink or swim together. We must stick with the snip, for it requires us all to even coiitroi her steering'gear^; and as long as we do that, we retain the power few will exercise it fo'tescue her from dangers to which 'we ourselves may inadvertently or recklessly subject her. I shall retend as many of the meeting^ appointed by our committee as practica ble, and direct my effort to the discussion of the s'.-uatioc in its bearings on our common interests, and in the hope thatl? may contribute to that rational agina tion which will tend to throw the light of truth upon it, and enable us to per? form intelligently our duty as sovereigh citizens. Yours respectfully, John BratIon. Chief Engineer Wadley will be pre pared by the 10th of Cune to give Oth the contract for grading thirfy-eigfit roi-les of The South Bound. Work is tb begin at the Savannah terminas ? Bar/Well People. After investigation by Vue TStafe veterinary surgeon, three horses have been shot near Manning, that were!-suf fering from glanders, i'wo horses "-are said to have died in the neigh borhooH from the same disease. Sick headache, biliousness, nausea, costive* ness, are promptly and agreeably banished by Dr. J. H. 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